🧵 Of articles I've found useful in understanding the nexus between #propaganda #disinformation #semanticoperations #uncivilsociety actors & authoritarian backlash.
Most of them tackle the issue of liberal bias in norm literature.
@politicalscience @potemkinvillage
1. Daniëlle Flonk, Emerging illiberal norms: Russia and China as promoters of internet content control
https://academic.oup.com/ia/article/97/6/1925/6412472
2. Marlies Glasius, Jelmer Schalk, Meta De Lange, Illiberal Norm Diffusion: How Do Governments Learn to Restrict Nongovernmental Organizations?
This paper looks at 'authoritarian learning', or illiberal norm cascades, specifically regarding shrinking #civilsociety spaces
3. Not an article, but a book: Rogue States as Norm Entrepreneurs, Carmen Wunderlich.
I found the chapter "Researching and Operationalizing Prototypical and Unconventional Norm Entrepreneurship" particularly useful. A 'how to'.
@stephlamy @politicalscience @potemkinvillage
Think of "The Big Lie" as an exercise in negative norm entrepreneurship.
Bad actors on the extremes define the scope of normative behavior, perhaps more so than mainstream society does, by testing the limits civil society will tolerate.
When they succeed in going beyond the pale without immediate consequences the impact resonates globally by changing the norm of what bad actors everywhere believe they can now get away with.
Stephanie Lamy
Eggmont 🐘